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backing up from NT to UNIX

We have an NT machine which does not have a DAT drive.
I know if it were a UNIX machine I could backup to another UNIX machine which has a DAT drive. Can anyone tell me if I can do this with NT. Perhaps a shareware tar,dd,rsh command?

galemany

There is an easy way to do this: install an NFS server in NT machine, mount the NT root directory of each NT partitions on Unix machine and perform a tar, cpio, dump or whatever other command from the Unix machine to DAT.

In Unix machine:
mount -t nfs NTMACHINE:ROOTDIR /mountdir
tar cvf /dev/rmt/0 /mountdir

jovadia

How about mks toolkit, It gives you all the unix command?

davidcawkwell

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Yes I knew this. But is there a way I can do it for free.

zhanghl

You may use the evaluation edition of AccessNFS of Intergraph at:

http://www.intergraph.com/nfs

Download it at:

http://www.intergraph.com/nfs/download.asp

Then, access NT from UNIX machine to do backup.

davidcawkwell

ASKER

Permanently for free

zhanghl

Which is most important? To solve the problem or to get a free software? :-))

jovadia

Why don't you just share the tape drive.
NT let you share devices.

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davidcawkwell

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Yes thats what I've been trying but I'm having problems using the
smbclient program. It just comes back not enough \ when I try to connect to a PC.
eg if machine is \\David_Cawkwell\win95 (share is win95)
I get not enough \ in name \\David_Cawkwellwin95

???? any ideas

mrausch

When using UNC in the shell, you have to escape the backslashs;
this is done via a double backslash, that is \\ gives you \.
Now you can either double all backslashs in your command
(\\\\David_Cawkwell\\win95) or escape the whole UNC
('\\David_Cawkwell\win95').
Sorry, I should've mentioned this in the example above.

davidcawkwell

ASKER

great it works. Ta very much.